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Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) transforms an image of single-view depth and/or RGB 2D pixels into 3D voxels, each of whose semantic labels are predicted. SSC is a well-known ill-posed problem as the prediction model has to "imagine" what…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Fengyun Wang , Dong Zhang , Hanwang Zhang , Jinhui Tang , Qianru Sun

In this paper, we develop a new method, termed SDF-3DGAN, for 3D object generation and 3D-Aware image synthesis tasks, which introduce implicit Signed Distance Function (SDF) as the 3D object representation method in the generative field.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Lutao Jiang , Ruyi Ji , Libo Zhang

Probabilistic diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis, inpainting, and text-to-image tasks. However, they are still in the early stages of generating complex 3D shapes. This work proposes Diffusion-SDF, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Gene Chou , Yuval Bahat , Felix Heide

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically encode the SDF with a large, fixed-size neural network to approximate complex shapes with implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Towaki Takikawa , Joey Litalien , Kangxue Yin , Karsten Kreis , Charles Loop , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

Implicit Neural Representations have gained prominence as a powerful framework for capturing complex data modalities, encompassing a wide range from 3D shapes to images and audio. Within the realm of 3D shape representation, Neural Signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Amine Ouasfi , Adnane Boukhayma

We present RangeUDF, a new implicit representation based framework to recover the geometry and semantics of continuous 3D scene surfaces from point clouds. Unlike occupancy fields or signed distance fields which can only model closed 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Bing Wang , Zhengdi Yu , Bo Yang , Jie Qin , Toby Breckon , Ling Shao , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Existing methods in neural scene reconstruction utilize the Signed Distance Function (SDF) to model the density function. However, in indoor scenes, the density computed from the SDF for a sampled point may not consistently reflect its real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ruihong Yin , Yunlu Chen , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

Implicit neural rendering, which uses signed distance function (SDF) representation with geometric priors (such as depth or surface normal), has led to impressive progress in the surface reconstruction of large-scale scenes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Xiaoyang Lyu , Peng Dai , Zizhang Li , Dongyu Yan , Yi Lin , Yifan Peng , Xiaojuan Qi

We introduce a novel depth estimation technique for multi-frame structured light setups using neural implicit representations of 3D space. Our approach employs a neural signed distance field (SDF), trained through self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Rukun Qiao , Hiroshi Kawasaki , Hongbin Zha

Unsigned distance functions (UDFs) have been a vital representation for open surfaces. With different differentiable renderers, current methods are able to train neural networks to infer a UDF by minimizing the rendering errors with the UDF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Chunsheng Wang , Kanle Shi , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) aims to jointly infer semantics and occupancies of 3D scenes. Truncated Signed Distance Function (TSDF), a 3D encoding of depth, has been a common input for SSC. Furthermore, RGB-TSDF fusion, seems promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Laiyan Ding , Panwen Hu , Jie Li , Rui Huang

We propose a novel variational approach for computing neural Signed Distance Fields (SDF) from unoriented point clouds. To this end, we replace the commonly used eikonal equation with the heat method, carrying over to the neural domain what…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Samuel Weidemaier , Florine Hartwig , Josua Sassen , Sergio Conti , Mirela Ben-Chen , Martin Rumpf

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in training Neural Networks to approximate Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) for representing open surfaces in the context of 3D reconstruction. However, UDFs are non-differentiable at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Miguel Fainstein , Viviana Siless , Emmanuel Iarussi

Implicit neural field generating signed distance field representations (SDFs) of 3D shapes have shown remarkable progress in 3D shape reconstruction and generation. We introduce a new paradigm for neural field representations of 3D scenes;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

We investigate the generalization capabilities of neural signed distance functions (SDFs) for learning 3D object representations for unseen and unlabeled point clouds. Existing methods can fit SDFs to a handful of object classes and boast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Gene Chou , Ilya Chugunov , Felix Heide

As commonly used implicit geometry representations, the signed distance function (SDF) is limited to modeling watertight shapes, while the unsigned distance function (UDF) is capable of representing various surfaces. However, its inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chuanxiang Yang , Yuanfeng Zhou , Guangshun Wei , Long Ma , Junhui Hou , Yuan Liu , Wenping Wang

Neural distance fields (NDF) have emerged as a powerful tool for addressing challenges in 3D computer vision and graphics downstream problems. While significant progress has been made to learn NDF from various kind of sensor data, a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Akshit Singh , Karan Bhakuni , Rajendra Nagar

We present a novel 3D shape completion framework that unifies multimodal conditioning, leveraging both 2D images and 3D partial scans through a latent diffusion model. Shapes are represented as Truncated Signed Distance Functions (TSDFs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Simon Schaefer , Juan D. Galvis , Xingxing Zuo , Stefan Leutengger

Accurate surface estimation is critical for downstream tasks in scientific simulation, and quantifying uncertainty in implicit neural 3D representations still remains a substantial challenge due to computational inefficiencies, scalability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Rushil Desai

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have shown remarkable capability in representing geometry with details. However, without signed distance supervision, it is still a challenge to infer SDFs from point clouds or multi-view images using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Baorui Ma , Junsheng Zhou , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han